The contents of the selected file are shown in the lower pane, with the differences highlighted. The Differences Viewer shows the contents of the selected directories in the left and right panes. insert, etc.).įolders are compared by comparing all the files in the two folders based on their file sizes, contents, or timestamps. You can move between changes and perform actions by clicking the icons (e.g. To compare a file with the clipboard contents, open the file in the editor, right-click the editor pane and choose Compare with Clipboard from the context menu:ĭifference Viewer shows all the differences and highlights the source code. The Differences Viewer shows the contents of the selected file on the left pane, and the contents of the active editor tab on the right pane. If you select a single file in the Project tool window, the context menu command is Compare File with Editor. From the context menu of the selection, choose Compare Two Files (or Ctrl+D). To compare two files, press and hold Ctrl and click two files in the Project tool window. All comparisons are performed in the Differences Viewer.
You can compare a) any two files in your project, b) a selected file with the one opened in the editor, or c) a file in the editor with the clipboard contents. This functionality is available in IntelliJ Idea, P圜harm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, RubyMine, and AppCode. In this post we focus on local files and folders comparison. PhpStorm and other IntelliJ Platform IDEs help you explore differences in many situations: differences between files, directories, revisions of the same file under version control or in the local history, database objects, or local and remote files. The good news is that you can quickly and conveniently compare and/or synchronize files/folders with guidance and support from your IDE, without any external tools. If you need to merge changes and synchronise folders, then it can become even more complicated, as well as difficult to perform manually without any support. In this case it’s crucial to work with the most up-to-date copy. Ruby developers that used NetBeans, might consider switching to other products like RubyMine, Aptana, RedCar, etc.Sometimes you have several different versions of files or folders related to your project locally, or you’ve just downloaded it from a remote source. The NetBeans team, also claimed that the NetBeans IDE was not a big success in the Ruby community in the last three years, so it wouldn’t make sense to continue working on it:Īlthough our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on existing low usage trends we are unable to justify the continued allocation of resources to support the feature.Īfter this development, the NetBeans/Ruby support will become a community project, much like Python support, which was abandon before getting into prime-time NetBeans.Īs for the rest of the dynamic languages, it seems that PHP and Groovy support will continue to be developed by Oracle, in version 7 of Netbeans, which is planned for April 2011. Regarding human resources, it is important to note that one of main figures behind the NetBeans “version 6 renaissance”, Tor Norbye, has left the company recently after the acquisition, as has Sun’s original JRuby team. To maintain that objective and capitalize on the JDK 7 release themes-multi-language support, developer productivity and performance-it is necessary that our engineering resources are committed to a timely and quality release of NetBeans IDE 7.0. A key objective of the NetBeans IDE has always been to offer superior support for the Java platform.
Java SE 7 and Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7) are the next major releases of the Java SE platform, which Oracle is committed to deliver in 2011. The NetBeans team announced that their main reason for dropping Ruby was the fact that their resources are limited and they’d like to focus on supporting the next major release of Java SE: This has become a reality, since as of version 7, NetBeans will no longer support Ruby. Ruby/RoR in NetBeans made headlines three years ago, but after Sun was acquired by Oracle there where fears that support for dynamic languages would suffer, as this IDE would be downsized.